I told Congress to tell President Obama to stop meddling in Libya.
Please do the same. You may borrow or copy from this letter:
### START LETTER ###
In the past, Presidents told lies to trick Congress into authorizing
wars. The War on Libya is different: President Obama started the war
first, and THEN lied about it.
The President said he wanted to protect innocent civilians in Libya.
However, there was NEVER any evidence that Qaddafi intended to target innocent
civilians. The President must have known this.
And yet, Congress has done NOTHING to hold the President accountable
for this lie.
The President has now admitted that his real goal is NOT to avert the
killing of civilians, but to remove Qaddafi from power. Here we have
more "mission creep," just like in previous wars. Now, the use of U.S.
ground troops is not only possible, it's probable . . .
The only way for Obama to "save face" is to achieve "victory" by
removing Qaddafi from power
But the only way to remove Qaddafi is invasion
Although no-one likes Qaddafi, he represented stability in North
Africa and cooperated with the West in matters like terrorism and
human trafficking
We haven't even disproved Qaddafi's allegation that Al Qaeda members
are in the rebel ranks
And yet, Congress has done NOTHING to hold the President accountable
for plunging the U.S. into a war of uncertain aims and goals.
Even worse, this seems to be a war based on false assumptions:
The President ASSUMED that all North African countries and cultures
are the same, and that what happened in Tunisia and Egypt would also
happen in Libya if only the U.S. dropped a few bombs
The President ASSUMED that other wealthy NATO countries could
eventually take the lead, but even Britain and France don't have the
money or equipment to sustain a no-fly zone in Libya
Yet Congress has done NOTHING to hold the President accountable for
his lawlessness, ignorance, and incompetence. All of this feels like
the second coming of the Bush years!
Indeed, the President and his NATO allies have made the situation in
Libya worse:
Our intervention has PROLONGED the war, creating the very
humanitarian crisis we sought to prevent
We have invited hatred from Qaddafi supporters whom we attacked
without cause, and ALSO hatred from the rebels who will blame their
defeat on our insufficient "help"
If the U.S. had claimed neutrality from the beginning of this civil
war, neither Qaddafi's supporters nor the rebels would have legitimate
cause blame us; now they BOTH have reason to blame us
Congress MUST stop funding the War on Libya. It MUST stop the
President from further involvement, and perhaps threaten him with
impeachment if he refuses.
I say this NOT because I'm a Democrat or Republican, but because I
want what's best for America and the world. I want peace on Earth, and
lawful government here at home.
DownsizeDC.org has a launched a new campaign: Get Out of Afghanistan.
This gives you a tool to tell Congress what most American want.
The hard-wired message says simply:
Please support legislation to
pull the troops out of Afghanistan.
Why should the U.S. pull out of Afghanistan? I explain in my personal
comments, which you can read below. You may borrow from or copy it:
### START LETTER ###
Can we go home now?
The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to capture Osama bin Laden, the
leader of the terror group Al Qaeda that was accused of pulling off
the 9/11 attacks.
Mission accomplished!
Osama bin Laden is dead
There are fewer than 100 Al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan
(http://abcn.ws/9PsIuv)
What will we achieve by remaining in Afghanistan?
We have won the war, but we are losing the occupation. We have 150,000
troops in the country, and yet
The government we installed after overthrowing the Taliban is
hopelessly corrupt
Prolonged occupation inevitably creates anti-U.S. resentment, just as
we would resent a foreign occupation force within our borders
Our attempts to "nation-build" a country we don't understand has
cost thousands of U.S. casualties and tens of thousands of Afghan
civilian deaths, which has only served to radicalize more of the
population
Downsizer Dispatch: Libya
